Manhunt Presidency: Obama, race, and the Third World

Sankaran Krishna

Third World Quarterly, 2019, vol. 40, issue 2, 284-297

Abstract: President Obama’s commitment to a creedal narrative of American exceptionalism and his understanding of the Third World as a space of ontological deficit together made for a presidency that could neither mitigate the structural racism of the United States nor deflect a racist foreign policy premised on an unending war against terror. By examining the murders of two American teenagers – Trayvon Martin and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki – this essay argues that the very self-fashioning narratives that propelled Obama to the presidency of the United States rendered him incapable of effecting any substantive changes in the racism than animates its domestic and foreign policies.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1533787

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